Fastener with nose for garment and belt



May 4, 1965 Filed NOV. 22. 1961 INVENTOR. [Low/ C. MEZERENYI BY WW lIJ United States Patent Pasadena, Calif. Filed Nov. 22, 1961, Ser. No. 154,224 2 Claims. (Cl. 24-225) The main object of my invention is to develop an easy to couple fastener device which is able to stiffen the end of the outer material. After the hooking, the fastener device is invisible from the outside and it holds the outer material tight against the under material, giving a good, smooth looking finish for the garment or belt.

The heart of this device is the plate hook member with a long nose which extends before the hook. This nose is able to stiffen in horizontal and vertical directions the ending of the outer material since the ending of the nose is shaped in a suitable form. This nose type hook member is fixed in any usual way (sewing, grippers, underplate etc.) to the ending of the outer material. For the above described purposes two basic forms of the nose type hook are shown in the accompanying drawmgs.

One form of the nose type hook is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. This hook member is only one piece before it is fixed in some way to the ending of the outer material.

The other form of the nose type hook is shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. In this form the hook member is comprised of two parts; an underplate, which has a nose portion, and which is covered with the stiffened garment fabric, and the hook carrying member with the hook. The underplate and the hook carrying member are rigidly fixed together on the ending of the outer garment in such a way that fabric is located between the underplate and the hook carrying member, and the whole device is concealed from the outside when the fastener device is joined, since the device is covered with the outer material.

This and other objects will be more readily understood by reference to the following description and claims taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 shows a hook member in position sewn to the cloth and ready for acceptance by a receptacle member.

FIG. 2 is a top plan view illustrating the appearance of the hook member and receptacle member of FIG. 8 when joined.

FIG. 3 is a top plan view illustarting the appearance of the hook member of FIG. 4 when it is fixed to a piece of cloth and and when joined with the receptacle member in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the hook member of FIG. 3.

FIGS. 1 and 2 in the drawings show the hook member 122 and the receptacle member 114, which has a gripping lip 116, a connecting sewing bar 118, and securing and spaced stems 120 adapted to extend through the associated garment fabric. The securing stems 120 are inserted in one end of the fabric to be joined together and sewn thereon securely by sewing around the sewing bar 118. The lip 116 of the receptacle is engaged in the hook 130 in FIG. 2. The long stems 120 of the receptacle give it ease of grapsing, but the hook member is able to work with any type of receptacle, which are in usage.

The hook member 122 in FIGS. 1, 2 (from 124 to 128) is an elongated, slightly arched plate 126; this plate 126 serves as the base of the hook 130. The ends of the base have sewing holes 124, for securing the hook member to the garment 131. On the base is located the hook 130 which is fixed rigidly to it. On the said plate 126, from the end of the base 128 to the hook 130 extends garment stiffening nose portion, which is able to stiffen an 3,181,220 Patented May 4, 1965 end of an associated garment, but is invisible from the outside when in position in the gament, since it is covered with the stiffened garment fabric. The nose has to be long enough so that the stiffened garment fabric (with the nose) can cover the place of the hooking and the receptacle, the fastening device being concealed and the garment being held smooth, stiff and close together.

The placement of the hook on the base depends upon the nose which must be long enough to produce the above described action. Therefore the hook is located on the base behind the nose.

The hook 130 is secured by grippers, welding, or in any other suitable way rigidly fixed to the plate 126. In FIG. 1 the base is a reversely bent back end portion forming a garment stiffening nose portion and terminating in a hook 130 providing a flared loop opening facing the other end of said plate, said hook being rigidly secured by grippers 132 to the mid portion of the plate and said plate being provided with means 124 for securing same to an end portion of an associated garment 131. From the above described view the appearance of the hook member could change, but the working idea, the general construction, the way of the usage and the result of the fastener device are the same in all forms as is generically presented in the FIGS. 1, 2.

In FIGS. 1, 2 the above described hook member is a complete unit before it is attached to the garment, because the hook 130 is rigidly fixed to the base 122 by grippers 132 or other means and the Whole assembly will be fixed as a unit to the garment. The hook member in FIGS. 3, 4 is a different form of the idea shown in FIG. 1. In FIGS. 3 and 4 the hook member is comprised of two parts before the union with the garment. One part of this hook member is the underplate 142 serving as the base of the hook, and the other part is the hook which is rigidly fixable to the base. The plate is wide enough to be able to stiffen the material in a horizontal and vertical direction.

Said plate 142 is a nose type hook carrying base. The first part of the plate is the nose, extended from the ending to the hook 144. Said nose, works on the garment (to be joined) with the same working principle which was described for the nose of the hook member in FIGS. 1 and 2. The nose of the plate from 140 to 144 in FIGS. 3 and 4 is capable of stiffening the ending of the garment in horizontal and vertical directions. The nose has to be so long that the stiffened garment fabric (with the nose) can cover the place of the hooking and the receptacle; the fastening device is concealed and the endings of the opening are smooth, still and held close together.

The hook is located on the base plate in such a Way, that a nose portion is left in front of it. At the place where the hook is to be rigidly attached, slots, gaps, recesses, shoulders or other suitable means are provided. In case the base plate is short and roughly rectangular, the hook must be placed so as to leave an appropriate stiffening nose portion, as Well as a portion which can be easily grasped when the hook is being engaged or disengaged.

The other part of the hook member is the hook, which is facing and lying over the said base plate; this hook is rigidly attached to the base plate with grippers.

In FIGS. 3, 4 is shown an elongated arcuate garment engageable plate 142 (FIG. 4) having an enlarged garment stiffening nose portion 140, a narrower garment stiffening tail portion 142, and an intermediate mid portion of width intermediate said first mentioned portion and forming with said tail portion laterally extending shoulders, said plate having a hook carrying member comprising an elongated plate provided with a hook and adapted to overlie said mid portion and provided with bendable prong means 146 adapted to pierce an associated garment to rigidly secure the plate to said garment and the hook carrying member to said plate by bending said prong means about said shoulders, said hook providing a fiared loop receiving opening facing the said tail portion.

In attaching the hook member to the garment in FIG. 3, the hook 144 is on the one side of the material and the hook carrying base 142 is placed (as an underplate) on the other side of the material, the grippers 146 of the hook 144 extend through the material and the base 142 and will be bent over the back side of the base 142. In this way the hook 144 and the base 142 are fixed together and to the material, the material being between the hook and the underplate.

While I have described my invention in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is understood that numerous changes and arrangements of parts may be made Without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.

I claim:

1. A fastening device comprising an elongated garment engageable plate having a reversely bent back end portion forming a garment stiifening nose portion of double thickness and terminating in a hook providing a flared opening facing the other end of said plate, said hook being rigidly secured to a mid-portion of the plate, and said plate having means for securing same to an end portion of an associated garment to stiffen the said garment end portion, said flared opening being adapted to engage a loop secured to another end portion of the garment to fasten the garment end portions together.

2. A fastening device comprising an elongated garment engageable plate having an enlarged garment stiffening nose portion, a narrower garment stiifening tail portion, and an intermediate mid portion of width intermediate said nose and tail portions and forming with said tail portion laterally extending shoulders on each longitudinal edge of said tail portion and provided adjacent said nose portion with laterally extending notches in each longitudinal edge of said mid portion, said plate having a hook carrying member rigidly secured thereto in overlying relation to the said mid portion by bendable prong means secured to the said member and adapted to pierce an end portion of an associated garment positioned between said plate and said member and to be bent about said shoulders and the inner edges of said notches, said hook being adapted to engage a loop secured to another end portion of the garment to fasten the garment end portions together. A

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DONLEY J. STOCKING, Primary Examiner.

ABRAHAM G. STONE, Examiner. 

1. A FASTENING DEVICE COMPRISING AN ELONGATED GARMENT ENGAGEABLE PLATE HAVING A REVERSIBLE BENT BACK END PORTION FORMING A GARMENT STIFFENING NOSE PORTION OF DOUBLE THICKNESS AND TERMINATING IN A HOOK PROVIDING A FLARED OPENING FACING THE OTHER END OF SAID PLATE, SAID HOOK BEING RIGIDLY SECURED TO A MID-PORTION OF THE PLATE, AND SAID PLATE HAVING MEANS FOR SECURING SAME TO AN END PORTION OF AN ASSOCIATED GARMENT TO STIFFEN THE SAID GARMENT END PORTION, SAID FLARED OPENING BEING ADAPTED TO ENGAGE A LOOP SECURED TO ANOTHER END PORTION OF THE GARMENT TO FASTEN THE GARMENT END PORTIONS TOGETHER. 